Basket.



J. JOHNSON.

BASKET.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 8, 1906. ,Y v 960,555, Patented June 7,1910.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH JOHNSON, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

BASKET.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State ofLouisiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Baskets, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention is a novel construction of basket, and the invention isparticularly adapted for clothes baskets or hampers.

The object of the invention is to provide al basket which shall be ofsimple construction, but exceedingly stout and durable.

lith this object in view, my invention consists essentially in weavingthin, fiat slivers of wood, spirally in between the Vertical slivers andhorizontal strips of willow.

The invention consists also in certain details hereinafter fullydescribed and pointed outin the claim.

In the drawings forming a part of this specication:-Figure l is aninverted plan view of the cover of the basket constructed in accordancewith my invention'and Fig. 2 is a side view, parts being broken away andmore clearly showing the manner of arranging the parts.

Referring to the drawings A indicates the bottoni of the basket havingthe parallel upright thin slivers of wood B, con- Specication of LettersPatent.

Application filed February 8, 1906.

Patented June 7, 1910.

Serial No. 300,150.

nected thereto, said upright slivers being connected to the top ring Oat their upper ends. Connected also to the bottom A, are the thin flatslivers D, broader than the slivers B and arranged in parallel order asshown and interlaced with the uprights B, said broader slivers D beingcarried around spirally as shown.

E indicates the thin strips of willow or osier, wound aroundhorizontally and interlaced with the upright and spiral slivers B and D.The handles F are also twisted into these parts. The cover Gr, comprisesthe ring H, cross slivers I, convolute slivers K and interlaced stripsL.

A basket constructed as herein shown and described will be cheap andsimple in construction and yet stout and durable.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a basket formed of vertical andhorizontal slivers having spirally arranged slivers interwoven in thevertical and horizontal slivers so as to reinforce said basket.

. JOSEPH JOHNSON. Witnesses:

G. A. VOORHIES,

CHARLES JOHNSON.

